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The pretentious label is never levelled at their tecnicality, though, rather their song titles/aesthetic/lyrics. Octavarium is a good example, following this huge themes about cycles and rebirth etc without really saying...anything.

Lots of artists don't say much, but the difference is they don't structure their songs in to multi-part epics and proclaim them to have multiple high concept themes about life and death.

Great musicians. Pretentious as fuck.

(Be aware: being pretentious in of itself isn't especially bad. Lots of great art could be described as pretentious)

Octavarium is a series of sets of lyrics related by a single theme. I really don't see how that's so pretentious (see the definition of "pretentious" above). And they don't go out and "proclaim" the songs to be so grand and epic, like ICP did with the whole shitty Shangri-La album (that's pretentious).

The thing is, DT might seem like they're showing off their abilities, but from my perspective (as a musician), they're not. I'd say most decent guitarists can probably play half of DT's repertoire without much problem. Really. If Petrucci actually tried to show off, Dragonforce-style, well, god help us. Almost all their presented talent lies in their compositional abilities.

Maybe I'm just butthurt, haha. But it just annoys me how everyone I meet disses DT as being "talented but pretentious/cheesy/showy/etc."

You cant possibly know much about music of you think the difference between instruments is equivalent to the difference between languages. If you know one instrument well, and have a basic understanding of music theory, then subsequent instruments will be quite a bit easier to pick up.

There are only 12 notes in the entirety of music. Those notes are the same across all instruments.

If one can play guitar, for instance, then one can more easily learn bass, mandolin, banjo, ukelele. If one knows one brass or woodwind then learning other brass or other woodwinds will be much easier.

I think the network deserves this treatment. I saw them play live at Viejas Arena in San Diego and it was unequivocally the greatest live performance I've ever seen. To have them perform in playback is a damn disgrace to their live performance abilities and their talent.

Oh. Well thanks for clearing that up. I would have assumed that publishing albums worldwide under multiple record labels, including subsidiaries of billion dollar corporations would be complicated. And that the logistics of touring worldwide for over a decade would involve working out legal agreements with thousands of venues and sponsors many of whom do not even speak your language.

But you are probably right. It is probably trivial. I bet Muse have plenty of time between writing chart topping albums to go to law school and master several distinct legal specialties in the legal system of hundreds of countries.

I bet they have a bunch of money to pay a specialized person a relatively small amount of money (say $50,000USD - no i dont care they arent from the US) in exchange for access to their expetise and years of schooling. If only such a thing existed...

Many bands are slaves to their labels, essentially. Not that they aren't fault for signing crappy contracts, but doing something you are fundamentally against because you have no power to negotiate is commonplace.

This is only topped by the time they were instructed not to swear in their performance (Their songs don't contain swears anyway) So instead they just filled the bridge of "Feeling Good" with the f-word.

MTV must have hated Nirvana. There's another video where they freak out the execs by starting to play "Rape Me" instead of the song they were supposed to, then switched at the last second before it went to commercial.

Yeah, there's really no point worrying about reposting something. You will be sharing it with plenty of new people who don't spend every minute on Reddit, or are just new here. The only people that give a shit are the ones who think karma means anything and just call you out for apparently whoring it. Downvote the dickheads and move on.

To be fair, there are some things that are reposted so blatantly for karma that I can see the annoyance. Can you imagine how nice it would be if it was always fresh new content that you haven't seen before? One can dream I suppose :P

I was actually going over track credits for the white album last night, and found it kind of funny that Paul did so much of the instrumentation for his songs... except Honey Pie, where John agreed to do all of the guitar work, even though he constantly complained about Paul's music hall fluff.

Also, the acoustics might suck, the venue may have had issues before, time-delay isn't available, or worst, they may not want anything other than the album version of the song because the audience isn't familiar with the band

It's the actual band. They were forced to have their music playing from a cd instead of performing live for whatever reason (maybe the show was worried about sound quality or improvisations or something along those lines) so they all switched spots for fun.

The lead singer/guitarist/keyboardist is on drums, the bassist is on guitar and keyboards, and the drummer is base and vocals.

Of course they had a choice, what I'm trying to say was the producers put them in a "Play it playback or don't play at all" position, so instead of losing and not playing at all, I applaud their effort for fucking with the producers.

It was quite obvious they were doing that, instead of trying to look genuine when they weren't, which would have pissed me off.

You can tell on the first song their nervous. There's some flat singing and off chords. By the second song they're having fun. Sure there's more off chords, but the viewers don't care. They're having so much fun jumping around, playing the long live and making it work live that it gels together.

It didn't sound like the album versions, it probably went over time (especially the second song), and they totally should have gotten the nerves out better. That's what someone wanting to make a piece of music as broad and as close to the radio version would despise.

This italian show (Quelli che il calcio) is almost an "improvised" show, they are live commenting football games (soccer for US people).

Muse are not so popular here, i like some of their song but i've never seen them before so i had to check wtf was wrong when i read the news.
I think 99% of people watching this show didn't even knew what happened.

My guess is so they don't have to hire in qualified sound people and PA gear while still sounding good, i.e. saving money. Even with good people and gear live performances almost never sound as good as studio tracks.

During a January 1969 appearance on the "Happening for Lulu" television show, Hendrix halted his band near the end of the set and broke into "Sunshine of Your Love", running the show past its scheduled end time.

Yes, the point is they did that despite the BBC people not wanting them to. From an account I read the producers were panicking as Jimi ate into the time for the next programme. You can see Jimi at 8:34 probably responding to being asked to stop.

There was the time when Elvis Costello was told not play "Radio Radio" on SNL. He started playing a different song then stopped and played "Radio Radio" anyways. Being live TV, there was nothing Lorne Michaels could do but ban him from the show afterwards.

i'm obsessed with this band, but i actually had no idea about this. dom didn't a pretty good job lip syncing, if i didn't know the band i probably would've bought it. matt looks funny as pretending to drum.

Theres a german TV show notorious for making bands lipsync, i forgot which band did it, was some big rock band, in the middle of the performance the guitarist took off his guitar and handed it to the leadsinger, and then grabbed the mic, sung into it, then took it around to all the members and made them sing into it, but the voice never changed. XD